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"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Pseudomonas is living even on tubes used in surgery. It is a major problem. It simply eats the plastic in a wet environment. - Balint

"Kevin Carter, Afrika'da zayıflıktan ölmek üzere olan siyah küçük kız çocuğu ile onun arkasında durup çocuğun ölmesini bekleyen akbabanın fotoğrafını çekmişti. Bu fotoğraf 1994 yılında fotoğraf dalında Politzer ödülü kazandırmıştı Carter'e. Ödülü aldıktan 3 ay sonra intihar etti. Şöyle diyordu geride bıraktığı mektubunda: "Çocuğu kurtarabilirdim, makinamı bırakıp onu kucağıma alıp yardım çadırına götürebilirdim. O an sadece gazeteci olduğumu düşünüyordum, şimdiyse önce insan olduğumu..." - Emine Okumuş

kişisel düşüncemdir tepki vermeden önce dinlemenizi öneririm. Sadece fotoğrafçının değil özellikle anlık gerçekleşen acılar karşısında insanın tepki vermesi kadar olayın ardından yorum yapması o kadar kolay birşey değildir. Bunun için soğukkanlılığını koruyup hızlı düşünebilmek her zaman olmasa bile doğru kararları verebilmek konusunda ihtisaslaşması gerekir bazılarımızın bu çok uzun ve... more... - horizon

Now that's cool! I really like the microphone trigger. - Jeff P. Henderson

Top 5 Geeky Office Gadgets! (A Must read for all Geeks!) - TheHenry from Bookmarklet

Never heard of the USB Mini fridge! - Interwebz 91

Caroline, this was a joke someone sent to me. ;) - Derrick

me too! - Vicarbott

holy wow, jeff! LOVE - Mona Nomura

I still have an Atari but I haven't touched it in years. I'm not sure if it still works. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to hooking it up again. - jenali

Liked mainly for the pictures. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats !!!!! and yes i love the pics LOL :) - Susan Beebe

Baby Dragon by Nissk - Michael Fidler from Bookmarklet

Puts me in mind of that scene from Existenz at the 'Gas' station - Kevin J Hatton

Does anyone know what kind of Dragon this is? - Michael Fidler

Why I cant like posts? - mahyar

sırnaşma heyt :) - Umut Balkan

"This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular. Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

The penguins have a bad, bad secret.... - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

i would love to learn photoshop. - edythe from Bookmarklet

LOL - stamp tool FTW! Paths... booo! - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

i would call this too much of a good thing, but i would totally eat it. - Georgie Bestie

Had to like this just for the dedication to building such a snack. - Yolanda

"The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe(s) or Faeroes (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne, Nynorsk: Færøyane, Bokmål: Færøyene, Old Norse/Icelandic: Færeyjar, Irish: Na Scigirí) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland." - jho from Bookmarklet

True. But for me, I want to be there to experience it in person. - jho

Taiwan - jho from Bookmarklet

Home to Ingmar Bergman - jho from Bookmarklet

The rocks remind me of this place in Taiwan http://friendfeed.com/travell... - jho

And the signal to noise ratio is.....? - Paul W. Swansen

this supports the intent of your message Steve http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Thomas Power

Love the colors. - aptjauder

BRILLIANT. - joey

that's just dirty!! - MicahBear78

stunning - Michael W. May

This is so beautiful! - Shannon - GlassMistress

"One of the most photographically appealing areas of the country is a series of fjords that jut out into the ocean, like the fingers from a hand, in the northwest. Although the roads through this region are generally well maintained, travel is slow because one cannot simply drive across the fjords. One must instead drive from the base to the tip of each “finger,” meaning that a 15 or 20 mile drive might be required to make just a mile or two (as the crow flies) of progress from the tip of one fjord to the next. The scenery, however, is spectacular, making the drive quite enjoyable. Beyond the obvious photographic opportunities with which you will be confronted at sea level in this area, I highly recommend taking a turn into the surrounding mountains. Numerous unpaved mountain roads in the region offer elevated perspectives of the fjords and, sometimes, the rivers that feed into them, enabling stunning compositions, particularly at sunset for the west-facing fjords." - jho from Bookmarklet

What is the place you would most like to visit? -> http://friendfeed.com/travell... - jho

"I think this is the most expensive lens in the world: the LEICA APO-TELYT-R 1:5.6/1600mm is worth 16 million HKD (2,064,489 USD) – yes you read this right 2 million US dollars! Anyone has that thing? I would like to see some test shots" - aptjauder from Bookmarklet

"Never before has the world of photography seen such a lens. The ZEISS Apo Sonnar T* 4/1700 was developed by Carl Zeiss for a customer with very high demands and a special interest in long distance wildlife photography. To achieve the highest possible image quality, the customer decided on the Hasselblad 203FE 6x6cm medium format camera and ZEISS lenses as the best combination for his special needs. At a focal length of 1700mm and a speed of f/4, this project even challenged the manufacture of the optical glass. The delicate, special glass types required for this unique design had never been cast before in such huge dimensions. Some of the resulting lens blanks weighed more than 25 kg (55 lbs.) and were valued more than a luxury sedan! Turning these blanks into the finished lens elements added even more to their value." - aptjauder from Bookmarklet

Try handholding this. - aptjauder

it looks downright silly while walking. And when driving, you should be paying attention to the road - Rohit

Anyone seen wearing this OUT of their car should be smacked... seriously. - Manny